From The Archives- Protest At RAF Molesworth 1985

[poliphilo]

In 1981 the government decided to deploy Cruise missiles at the Molesworth RAF base in Cambridgeshire- making it a focus for protest by peace campaigners. I was there on a demo in 1985 (I think)- and took these pictures.

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The day started off beautifully- and then there was a downpour. The earliest pictures in the sequence show blue skies, the later ones show umbrellas and puddles and raincoats.

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

That's right, according to my memory too - whereas, the following year, we got the reverse - damp clinging fog followed by heat - we discovered afterwards that it went above 20 that day